The U.S. Drought Monitor map provides a summary of drought conditions across the United States and Puerto Rico. Often described as a blend of art and science, the map is updated weekly by combining ...

NOAA National Weather Service weather forecast products. Weather forecasts are
available for all regions of the Alaska. In addition to weather forecasts, 24
hour weather observations and all weather ...

The South Asia Drought Monitor (SADM) is an evolving drought monitoring tool, which, in its present form is based entirely on remote sensing data. It aims to supply timely information on drought onset, ...

The Boaters Forecast Tool provides recreational boaters information on lake and river conditions to help them determine if it is a good boating day. The easy to use, web-based format was customized ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released the new HAZUS99, the natural hazard loss estimation methodology software program. HAZUS99 is used for earthquake-related mitigation, emergency ...

Launched at the first Earth Observation Summit in Washington in July 2003, the
intergovernmental ad hoc Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is tasked with
developing a ten-year implementation plan for ...

The NASA hurricane web page is a compilation of data from various satellites
and computer models, and it explains why and how NASA investigates hurricanes.
It also covers the relationship of NASA's ...

The Teton County, Wyoming Project Impact combines the resources of individuals, schools, churches and local businesses into a community-wide program that helps prepare for, and protect against, natural ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the BEach Advisory and Closing Online Notification (BEACON) system to meet the Agency's requirement to provide to the public a database of pollution ...

PCRaster is a dynamic Modeling system for distributed simulation models. The main applications of PCRaster are found in environmental Modeling: geography, hydrology, ecology to name a few. Examples ...

Through the Project Impact initiative, FEMA and ESRI have formed a National Partnership in part aimed at providing multi-hazard maps and information to U.S. residents, business owners, schools, community ...

(Summary adapted from Natural Hazards web page)
Earth scientists around the world use NASA satellite imagery to better
understand the causes and effects of natural hazards. The goal in sharing these ...

(Summary adapted from FEMA's MSC web site)
The Map Service Center (MSC) web site is part of a suite of
online services planned to expedite the dissemination of FEMA's
flood map and insurance products ...

http://weather.gov/alerts/
This page provides access to NWS watches, warnings, advisories, and other
similar products several different formats. Select a state or product name to
view a list of active ...

The Texas Surface Water Quality Viewer displays information developed for the state's assessment of surface water quality in 2000 and 2002. The map viewers look up uses, standards, and water quality ...

The National Drought Policy Commission was established under the National Drought Policy Act of 1998 to ensure collaboration between different government agencies on drought-related issues. The Commission ...

The Interactive NWS (iNWS) is the home of new mobile and desktop innovations of the National Weather Service. iNWS strives to fulfill its mission of protecting life and property by using new technology ...

The Conservation GIS Starter Kit is a stand alone program of instruction for learning the basics of GIS technology in relation to conservation and environmental issues. Packed with practical information, ...

The National Weather Services broadcasts free, unencrypted weather data via satellite. Not only do you get nearly all the products from nationwide weather service forecast offices (WSFO's), but you ...

The purpose of this service is to monitor current and anticipated
precipitation anomalies over the contiguous United States. Anticipated
precipitation anomalies are those which might be expected over ...

The Environmental Mercury Mapping, Modeling, and Analysis (EMMMA) Tool supports
mercury research and decision-making by providing tools for Mapping, Modeling,
and Analysis of mercury data.
The Environmental ...

QUAL2K (or Q2K) is a river and stream water quality model that is intended to
represent a modernized version of the QUAL2E (or Q2E) model (Brown and Barnwell
1987). Q2K is similar to Q2E in the following ...

Lifemapper (LM) produces a comprehensive archive of species' geographical
distribution maps. It intends to re-architect the LM species data archive and
update it with models derived from museum data. ...

The movement of water and chemicals into and through soils has a large impact
upon our environment and the entire ecosystem. Understanding these processes is
of great importance in managing, utilizing, ...